On 28 April RA Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan received the delegation of French National Higher Security Research Institute and National Association of Auditors. The ambassador of the French Republic to the RA Serzh Smesof guided the delegation. During the meeting RA MoD Seyran Ohanyan talked about a number of issues regarding the RA defence department, particularly, the current RA MoD system reforms and their perspectives, the situation in Southern Caucasus, the approaches of Armenia’s external and defence policy towards the settlement of regional conflicts, especially the Nagorno Kharabakh conflict, the participation of the RA servicemen in peacekeeping missions, the military cooperation between Armenia and France and the work done in that sphere.

Then the RA MoD answered the delegation-members’ questions about the role of the RA MoD in keeping Armenia’s state borders, about the RA MoD participation in NATO’s programs, about the circle of rights of the RA MoD military police, as well as questions about conscription and contracted military service in the Republic of Armenia. RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs